I’m Trying Something New To Promote My Stories

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I love writing new stories, but I hate promoting them. It’d be nice if people found my stuff without my pushing articles, but let’s get real. It’s not going to happen. Maybe if I were someone like Barack Obama, maybe? But I doubt it.

Article promotion is the only reason I keep most social media anymore. That, and so I can find some weird memes to make my partner laugh. It’s like a demented contest he and I do.

I’m constantly promoting on Twitter, Instagram, and random Facebook groups with mixed results. Instagram starts conversations while Twitter gets more organic reads. Not many people click on my articles on Twitter.

Lately, I started getting into TikTok. I figured I’d do a mixture of humor, cats, and books. If nothing else, I’d try something to relax and work on editing skills. Who knows? Maybe I’ll end up being a TikTok comedian? Wouldn’t that be awesome?

I looked at a few BookToks, and I had an idea. What if I could post links to my book reviews on my TikTok? Would that get some viewers?

And so the experiment began. I posted a short video talking about how much I liked the book Circe. Then, I posted the link in the caption so any interested viewers could click and go straight to my article.